{"id":15785,"date":"2025-08-04T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15785"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:04:02","slug":"researchers-convene-for-equitable-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15785","title":{"rendered":"Researchers convene for equitable education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The critical policy roundtable convened at the Aga Khan University (AKU), underscored a unified commitment to embedding field-based research evidence directly into educational reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent educationists, researchers, and policymakers from Sindh emphasised the need to cultivate a culture of data utilisation within the education sector, ensuring effective policymaking, particularly for enhancing the quality of learning for all children, with a special focus on marginalised communities.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Data and Research in Education &#8211; Research Consortium (DARE-RC), funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office (FCDO), the event focused on integrating research insights with the province&#8217;s education priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The DARE-RC consortium affirmed its ongoing engagement with Sindh&#8217;s education sector, ensuring that evidence continuously informs policy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Farid Panjwani, Dean of the AKU Institute for Educational Development in Pakistan (IED, PK), highlighted the need for steps based on field-based evidence for educational reforms. He stated, &#8220;the 18 studies in Sindh offer empirically validated pathways to improve learning outcomes, and we urge stakeholders to leverage these insights for systemic change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ehtasham Anwar, Team Lead, DARE-RC, said the research will inform decision-making in a sector as important as education-the lifeline of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Yates, Deputy Head of Mission, British Deputy High Commision, Karachi said: &#8220;Education is vitally important for the development of individuals but also for countries and UK government is pleased to support education through this programme.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critical policy roundtable convened at the Aga Khan University (AKU), underscored a unified commitment to embedding field-based research evidence directly into educational reforms. Prominent educationists, researchers, and policymakers from Sindh emphasised the need to cultivate a culture of data utilisation within the education sector, ensuring effective policymaking, particularly for enhancing the quality of learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}